Kelowna: Walking Food Tour with 7 Tastings & 4 Drinks

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Three Hours, Seven Tastings, and the People Who Built Kelowna's Food Scene

You walk through Kelowna's downtown Cultural District for three hours, stopping at seven local food businesses and four drink spots—all included. You'll taste gelato lakeside, pizza from a wood-fired oven, fresh margaritas, and bread from an organic bakery, plus visit hidden gardens and a rooftop patio with views of the whole valley. The guide is Andrew, who grew up here and started the tour five years ago, so the stories and stops are personal, not generic.

Step-by-step itinerary

Kelowna walking food and culture tour

Meet outside Laurel Packinghouse
Discuss Kelowna street art
Walk through lakeside park
Visit rooftop patio for views
Explore Kasugai Gardens
Visit lakeside park and boardwalk
Enjoy gelato at Kelowna Yacht Club
Experience BNA building attractions
Relax at loose leaf tea house
Visit Sprout Artisan Bakery
Eat wood fired pizza at cafe
Dine and drink at Mexican restaurant

The Experience

You're standing outside the Laurel Packinghouse on a weekday morning, and Andrew hasn't shown up yet—or so you think, until you spot someone tall with ginger hair holding a sandwich board sign. That's the start of the Kelowna walking food tour. He's been running this for five years, grew up in the Okanagan, and actually worked at his grandparents' orchard in Oyama, which means when he talks about why the valley matters, he's not reading from a script. The tour winds through downtown's Cultural District for three hours, and you're not just walking past buildings—you're stopping at places where the owners know Andrew by name and have made something specific for the group that day.

The route takes you past street art, through lakeside parks, and if you're going on a weekday between mid-April and mid-October, up to a rooftop patio with a 360-degree view of downtown. You'll walk through Kasugai Gardens, a hidden spot named after Kelowna's sister city in Japan—koi, waterfalls, Japanese sculptures, the whole thing—and along the Waterfront Boardwalk on Okanagan Lake. The stops themselves are where the tour gets real. Kelowna Yacht Club makes house-made gelato for every group and you eat it lakeside. BNA is a two-story brick building that somehow contains a brewery, 10-pin bowling alley, bocce court, vintage arcade, and a burger bar. There's a loose-leaf tea house that people apparently don't want to leave. Sprout is a family-owned bakery where you can watch the bakers work and taste bread made with certified organic flour. And then there's the wood-fired pizza from an apple-shaped oven imported from Naples, Italy, plus a hidden speakeasy and garden patio attached to it.

You get seven food tastings and four drinks across the whole three hours—a full-size craft cocktail, a local beer tasting, a special cocktail sampling, and a glass of wine. Non-alcoholic options are available, and kids are catered to. Andrew mentions in the tour description that he's 6'6" and 250 pounds, so you'll be getting more than your fill—that's not marketing, that's a warning wrapped in a fact. Everything is included, which means you're not stopping at a place and then finding out the tasting costs extra. The tour moves at a pace that lets you actually taste things and talk to the people running these spots, not a sprint through checkpoints.

If you're in Kelowna with a free afternoon and you want to understand why the city has become a food destination without spending the day researching restaurants or figuring out where to go, this is the shortcut. You meet the owner of the business on the first stop and he takes you to the places he actually knows.

What’s included

Your three-hour tour includes hotel pickup coordination (public transportation options are available nearby), entry to all stops, seven food tastings at local bakeries, pizza shops, and restaurants, four drinks including a craft cocktail, local beer, special cocktail sampling, and a glass of wine, plus non-alcoholic options.
You'll visit Kasugai Gardens, the Waterfront Boardwalk, a rooftop patio (weekdays, April–October), and stops at Kelowna Yacht Club for gelato, BNA for pizza and arcade games, a loose-leaf tea house, Sprout Bakery, and a Mexican restaurant with fresh margaritas.
Everything is included in the price.

Good to know

Moderate physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearbyNot for heart conditionsNot for back problems

Operated by A Taste Of Kelowna Food Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to eat your way through Kelowna's best local spots without researching restaurants or arranging transport—the fixed three-hour route and included tastings at each stop mean you show up hungry and leave full, with stories from the people who actually built the food scene here.